Morten Bech

Morten Bech (9)

πŸ‘‹ Hi! I am a frontend web developer, designer, sparetime illustrator, librarian, husband, and father of two. πŸ€– I work with frontend web development, UI design, and sometimes web graphics at a local TV station in the western part of Denmark, called TV MIDTVEST. πŸ› οΈ Tools of the trade: VueJS, Nuxt, Tailwind, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JavaScript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe XD, etc.

Carousels, Swipers, Sliders, and Usability

What’s the difference between a carousel, a swiper and a slider? The terms are used interchangeably, but I would argue, there’s a semantic difference. A definition: Carousels are circular. They start over once you reach the last item. Swipers are linear. You can swipe back…

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Decentralized and Secure Messaging

Of all my messaging apps, and for various reasons I have quite a few installed on my devices, Element is my new favourite. Element is a free and open source instant messaging client based on the Matrix protocol. It supports end-to-end encryption, groups and channels…

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App Launcher: Replacing Spotlight with Raycast

I used to use Spotlight Search in macOS as an app launcher. Unfortunately, it broke after upgrading to macOS 13.1. For some reason it is suddenly unable to find preinstalled apps as well as system apps, like System Settings, Text Edit, Safari, Mail, Calendar, Messages,…

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Feedle: A Search Engine for RSS Feeds

RSS Revisited: Back in the day when RSS was the shizzle-bizzle you used to look for the little orange icon with the dot and the three arcs, when you wanted to subscribe to your favorite blogs. Since then, big corp social media kind of hijacked…

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